This is a bad take. Especially when it is hard to ignore that the Base-R framework has learned and adapted from the “tidy” framework. Perfectly timed with this R-Bloggers post from today: r-bloggers.com/2023/01/dplyr…
Good morning.
If the only things you’ve ever done with R rely on the “tidyverse,” you don’t know R, and can’t claim to.
Be sure your students know this.